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“Our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa.”
Source: Independence speech, Old Polo Grounds, Accra, 6 March 1957
Context Said at midnight to crowds at Accra's Old Polo Grounds as Ghana became the first sub-Saharan colony to win independence from Britain.
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